Egg opener



March 19, 1929. w, wmG T 1,705,950

EGG OPENER Filed Feb. 15, 1926 John l ls/q Wr fqhf a Patented Mar. la 1929. I

JOHN WESLEY H .Eeq ornnnal 1 Application filed February The invention isa; device'for readily opening eggs by which it will be unnecessaryftoplace the tips of the fingersin the egg to open it, and which will makeit impossible to parts of the shell with the egg. v

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The object of the lllVGl'llllOll' is to provide a simple and eflioientdevice for opening eggs.

'Another object of the invention is to prof be observed that they arepositioned sothat vide a device for opening eggs which penethe egg apartso that the entire contents may drop Without breaking the yolk.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device for readilyopening eggs by which the egg may readily be held'without danger ofgetting any of the contents on the,

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And a still further object of the invention is 'to provide a device forreadily opening eggs 2 which is of a simple and economical construction.

WVith these ends in view the invention embodies a device made in twohalves with teeth in one end and means for hinging the two I halvestogether, and-1n WlllCh both oi the said halves may be made from thesamedie.

Other features and advantages oft-heinvention will appear from thefollowing description taken in connection with the drawings, wherein y IFigure 1 is a. side elevation of the device showing it asit would appearin use.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through one of the halves'of thedevice. g

Figure 3'isan end view looking toward the inner end of'one of the halvesof the device.

Figure 41s a plan view of oneof'the halves of the device.

In the drawings the device is shown as it would be made wherein numeral1 indicates one of the halves, numeral 2 the other of the halves, andnumeral 3 the prongs.

Each of the halves 1 and 2 is made as shownshown in Figure 1 these endswill come to'- gether before the backs of the halves arrlve at imrsurorWRIGHT, or: PU-YAL'LUR." SHINGT N, Asst-canon enown-HALF o PERL MARIONSNIDER OEPUYALLUP, As INGToN; r

trates the shell and pulls the two halves of whenthe'device is formedand the up as shown in Figure 3.

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' a straight line so} that the backswill'forman obtuse angle which is a.little less than 1 80* degrees; The two sections are pivota l ly hingedtogether by pins 8 throughv the openlngs. 6, and itwill be observed thatthe ears on one of the'halves may be placed inside of theears on theotherof the halves. I

The teeth 3 are made as'shown andfit will the teethon the other of thehalves, and they ends of the halves are provided with notches Qintowhich the teeth will fit so that the slant-,. ingjedges 7 will cometogether to makea substantially sealed joint. It will also be noted thatthe teeth 8 are formed so; that the plane ofthe lines 7 will passthrough the centers of 5 protrude into the notch 9 of the other halfsothat the notches will only beas deep as one half of a tooth. It willalso be noted that the center line of the device so that when the otherhalf is placed in position'this edge of the central tooth ontheotherhalf will also be on the center line of the device.- The teeth theteeth so that only halfof each tooth will; i

edge of thecentral tooth is formed on the are also formed so that aline. that may be drawn through their centers will extend me the deviceis stamped is fiat, and so that the same line will be parallel to thecenter line teeth bent It will" be understood that changes may be madein the construction without departing from the spirit of the invention.-One of which changes may be in the design of either of the halves ofthe. device, anotherfmay be in the design or arrangement of the teeth,and still another may be in the use of other means for hinging the twohalves together.

The construction will be readily understood from the'foregoingdescription.v To use the device an egg may-be placedin the topof theU-shapedchannel formed between the hinged parts'ot the two membersWhenthe parts are closed as shown in Figure 1v numeral 10,an d thedevicewiththe egg may Figure 1, and it-will be observed that as thecenter of the device is slightly tapped upon.

a solid object the teeth 3 willbe forced'into I the egg and then as theopposite half of the container.

device is moved upward the teeth in each half will draw the egg shellapart and permit the entire contents to drop into any suitable ItWilltherefore be observed that the egg may readily be removed "from theshell without breaking the yolk, placing the, tips of the fingers intothe egg or permitting any of the egg Whatever, to get on the hands.

two substantially semi-circular pieces of material hinged at theirabutting ends forming a U-shaped channel with the upper side open withthe-parts closedtogether, the outer ends" of the said pieces of materialbeing somewhat narrower and forming handles, and upwardlyextending andoverlapping staggered teeth at the inner ends of the said pieces ofmaterial. V

In testilnony whereof he aflixes his signa- JOHNYWESLEY WEIGHT.

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